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ethics of care

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Get to know jailhouse lawyers and their loved ones through the words, wisdom, and experiences of incarcerated individuals who teach themselves the law to advocate for themselves and the rights of their peers. 

Please take care as you interact with these stories as they provide insight into alternatives and solutions to mass incarceration, but also touch upon difficult content, including confinement, medical neglect, and death, and retaliation that jailhouse lawyers routinely experience– from solitary confinement to transfers and restrictions on accessing law libraries and resources – simply because they seek to know, use, and shape law.

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Kifa Muhammad

I wish the world could read this letter so that they could know this:
To me, this is a powerful example of the energy and dedication that jailhouse lawyers put into their legal education.
GENDER--
which state do they live in?California
length of incarceration--
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